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σκώπτω , Ar.Pl.973, etc. (not in Hom., but
A.“παρα-” h.Cer.203): fut. “σκώψομαι” Ar.Ach.854, whence Elmsl. restores σκώψει for -ῃς in Nu. 296: aor. 1 “ἔσκωψα” Hdt.2.121.δ́, Pl.Men.80a, etc.:—Med., aor. “ἐσκωψάμην” Alciphr.3.57:—Pass., aor. “ἐσκώφθην” X.Cyr.5.2.18: pf. ἔσκωμμ<*>ι, imper. ἐσκώφθω （ἀπ-) Luc.Bacch.8:—mock, jeer, scoff at, τινας Ar.Nu.540,992, Ra.421, etc.; “ς. τὴν μανίαν τινός” Id.Nu.350, cf. Pax 745; τινὰ τῆς ἀμεριμνίας for his want of thought, Ach.Tat.1.7; “τινὰ εἰς μαλακίαν” D.18.245; “τὰς Λακωνικὰς μαχαίρας εἰς τὴν μικρότητα” Plu.Lyc.19; also ς. ἐς τὰ ῥάκια jest at them, Ar.Pax 740; “εἴς τινα” Aeschin.2.41 (v.l.); “πρός τινα” Pl.Thg.125e:—Pass., to be mocked, Nicol.Com.1.31.
b. in good sense, joke with, τινα Hdt.2.121.δ́.
2. abs., jest, joke, Cratin.308, Ar.Eq.525, Nu.296, etc.; “σκώψαντα εἰπεῖν” X.Cyr.1.3.8; “ς. καὶ κωμῳδεῖν” Ar.Pl.557; “ς. ἀγροίκως” Id.V.1320; χλευάζειν καὶ ς. Arist.Rh.1379a29; ὥσπερ Ἀναξανδρίδης ἔσκωψεν according to the joke of An., Id.EN1152a22; to be in fun, opp. to be in earnest, E.Cyc.675, X.Smp.9.5: sts. in a good sense, “εὖ σκώπτειν” Arist.EN1128a25; ἐμμελῶς ς. Id.Rh.1381a36. (Cf. σκώψ fin.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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